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- From: sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden)
- Subject: Re: Reserach in Fiction
- Originator: sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:39:08 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.162953.2417@HQ.Ileaf.COM> <BrJrIH.5DF@unx.sas.com> <1992Jul20.175859.571@HQ.Ileaf.COM> <1992Jul21.141728.29806@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
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- In article <1992Jul21.141728.29806@bwdls61.bnr.ca>, pww@bnr.ca (Peter Whittaker) writes:
- |In article <1992Jul20.175859.571@HQ.Ileaf.COM> hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh) writes:
- |>One example of a "howler" is the use of parsecs as a unit of time in Star Wars.
- |
- |That's fine: all units of distance are acceptable as units of time as
- |well. It is perfectly legitimate for me to say "See you in 90
- |gigametres"; you might have difficulty figuring out that I mean "See
- |you in 5 minutes", but that is something we'd have to work out.
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- So, of course, a story in which someone said "See you in 90 gigametres"
- would be a good story if the author had done enough research to know
- that this was a legitimate expression, but a bad story if he hadn't.
- Or perhaps what we're learning here is that it isn't the scientific
- facts that make for a good story, it's the writing.
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- --Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC | sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
- Hellenic poet of the same name. |
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